Looking for the best web traffic strategies?

As there are a number of methods to generate a good amount of traffic, you’d probably feel a bit confused about them. Let’s tackle one method at a time.

-Today let’s discuss Web 2.0 – The Power of Social Media

Web 2.0 is really just a way of describing the use of interactive websites.

When the Internet first got started there were no graphics, it was all text based.

Slowly the technology got developed to display graphics with the text and traditional web sites got developed.

These websites are still in existence today, in fact many of us still use them, effectively they allow very little interaction with visitors.

What they do is allow you to show a particular graphic and some text and perhaps a button for the visitor to click on to buy something or a place to fill out their email address, or credit card information.

But very little real interaction. What web 2.0 really does is add the ability of the visitor to interact more with the website but importantly also to interact with OTHER visitors as well.

Using sites like Twitter is possible to send out a message to your followers (people who have signed up to receive your messages) and thousands of people receive it, who can respond, bringing other people into the conversation.

Web sites like Youtube not only allow you to upload videos to be viewed by others, but gives people the ability to comment on your video and “rate them”.
“Social proof” (finding out how others feel about a particular product or service you are interested in) is something virtually all of us use in some way shape of form, and web 2.0 really allows you to explode this further.

But there is also another huge bonus with web 2.0.

And that is that the search engines (in particular) Google absolutely love the content on these sites, and often rank information on these sites higher in the search engines results than a traditional website.

At first this might seem confusing as to why you would do that, but if you take a step back and think about it, it makes sense.

The search engines after all, want to service the very best content for it’s users, the people who are using the search engines to find things.

That’s because the search engines derive significant percentages of their income from ad’s their users click on, etc.

And because of this, it makes sense for them to provide exactly what their visitors want.  i.e. Relevant content.

In other words their mission in life is to provide the most relevant content to their visitors.

For example if you do a search for Microsoft windows XP then you want information that is most relevant to the visitor showing up first.

Sounds like a no brainer, right?  If they give the visitor the best possible information, then the visitor is going to be happy and continue to use the search engine for future searches, and click other ad’s, etc.

So what has all this got to do with web 2.0 ?

It’s all about “being” where the people are.  If there are millions of videos being watched every day on youtube and probably hundreds of thousands of comments, thats a lot of people, right?

So google will see a web site like that as relevant but not only that but as an Authority site, which is another way of saying a website that has a high level of trust with Google.

Because Google can see all the new comments and videos (in the case of a video site) or tweets (Twitter) or updates in Facebook, etc it stands to reason they are going to make sure it is placed more prominently in the search engine results.

This is why, for example it’s very common for a video to show up in the search engine results that is directly related to your search phrase.

In short the search engines are pretty smart because they “trust” sites frequented by lots of other people and want to send you to these types of sites because you are going to be happy with the “social proof” you find, namely the other people just like you who have visited the site.

So the visitor is happy because the web 2.0 site they arrive on is relevant and likely information from other human visitors, and the search engines are happy because they get to continue to provide more relevant content.

Ok, so I’ve established web 2.0 is a good idea, but how can internet marketers benefit from using these types of websites?

Quite simply really, but getting our content (information about our products and services, etc) onto these web 2.0 sites.

What often happens is that this content (unsurprisingly) gets an “unfair” advantage compared to more traditional websites and ranks more prominently in the search engines for the reasons listed above.

There is a ton more to learn about web 2.0, which is really outside the scope of this newsletter.

What you decide, make sure you use Web 2.0 in your online marketing promotions.

regards,

Tim & Anthony

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(The Marketing Assassins)

Early this morning we opened the doors to the Marketing Assassin’s Ninja Den.

The “Ninja Den” is aimed at assisting you make a pile of cash online by following proven step by step web traffic and marketing strategies.

We suggest you rush to the main page because the DOORS WILL CLOSE on 18 June @ midnight (eastern US time).

DOORS CLOSED 18th JUNE @ MIDNIGHT

It’s a special new offer that is for 60 hours only.

Find out more here.

There is nothing we know of on the internet that comes to the value of what we have put together.

There’s also some neat free stuff available.

If you are ready to take action to become more successful online, you better visit the Ninja Den.

Remember though, we are closing the doors on June 18th  midnight!

Cheers,

Anthony & Tim

Visit the forum at www.webtrafficandmarketing.com

It’s FREE to register!

This forum has come about to try and help you and others build a successful online business.

Tim and I are both internet marketers and spend a lot of our time teaching, educating and helping others to discover the amazing opportunities available on the internet today.

We decided in February of 2010 that one the best ways we can help a lot of people is to provide a FREE forum so that you and others can ask their questions, get genuine helpful answers and assist others.

One of the lessons we quickly learned online was this..

” You can’t do this alone folks!”

You must build relationships with others and share your knowledge, experience, passions and ideas.

We urge you to be an active forum member, don’t be afraid to ask any questions, (no matter how silly you may think the question is)  and even more importantly, share you experiences with others.

So once again welcome, please make the most of this forum because if you do, you the have greatly increased your chances of being very successful as an online marketer.

Cheers,

Tim & Anthony

Got some fantastic INFO ON KEYWORDS for you in today’s post…

We  have found a very good video on KEYWORD RESEARCH using the Market Samurai software, that we suggest you watch.

Most people know  keyword research and assessing competition is important.

We think it’s MORE that important…

IT’S VITAL TO GET RIGHT!

It’s absolutely imperative and could be the difference between getting a constant stream of targeted web traffic and ultimately how much PROFIT you will make).

MORE Targeted Web traffic = (you guessed it) more conversions and more cash.

There’s no hype there. Plain and simple right?

More traffic results in more sales, even if you are not the best at selling.

You’ll see there are a big collection of videos we put on the page.

We collated the best and most important of their videos and put them all on the one page for you below.

The one we are talking about is the FIRST ONE at the top of the page.

If you TRULY want to understand how to do this with almost foolproof results we suggest you  watch ALL these videos but for now at least watch no 1.

To watch the new video on KEYWORD RESEARCH, please VISIT THIS LINK.

Enjoy and hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers,

Anthony & Tim

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You made it to our webinar page.

On this page you will discover when the next web traffic & marketing webinar is being held PLUS you will find link to our latest free webinar video recording.

The webinars are a great  opportunity for you to get any questions you have answered. You can also hear other people’s questions and answers.

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Keywords.

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Web Traffic & Marketing Webinar November 30th 2009

Topics- ===> Market Samurai & the New FTC regulations plus Q & A’s.

Useful links for the above webinar;

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And in addition what about if I mentioned that you could retrieve all this info using nothing but your favorite browser and a standard Google search?

Interested? Read on….

Firstly lets take a step back and discuss relevance, as this term a very important part of Googles results returned from your searches.

Google wants to provide the searcher with extremely accurate and relevant results that it can. Google are aware that if they fail to provide this info, it’s likely that searchers will stop using their services completely, and no users means no advertising revenues which is their main source of income!

For a prime example of a search engine dropping the ball, spare a thought for AltaVista? In its time it was the most popular search engine, and almost overnight (not quite) lost the crown to Google because they dropped the ball with relevance.

I don’t think there is such a thing as search engine loyalty (at least not for the average search engine user). If a better alternative arrives, the everyday user will just start using that service.

Trust me when I say Google are very conscious of this, and put a heap of resources into making sure that when you search for something, the results that come back are highly related to your the search term you used.

They have to keep the everyday searcher happy so that they come back to Google again and again.

Shred Internet Marketers have, of course found ways to “game” Google in previous years, so that their own sites show up instead of what should be the most relevant results, and such techniques are still used in modern times.

Mostly these techniques are located by Google who is getting smarter at finding these types of hacks.

Google seems to get it right a lot of the time, and certainly more than the other major search engines at this point in time.

Ok so given that Google is now returning the most relevant results and has the biggest user base when compared to any other search engine, and that its clear that their primary goal is info relevance to their users, does it not make sense to use Googles search results and be using this information more when conducting keyword research?

For example lets say your searching for the keyword phrase web traffic

When I entered that search term into google, I got a list of current pages that Google tell us are the most relevance to that search term (along with a host of ads).

But in additional to this information at the bottom of the page they also provide (and here is the key)….

Searches RELATED to: web traffic (Their words).

Hmm interesting a list of keywords that Google think are relevant to my search.

Google actually show you the keywords that they deem to be the most relevant to your search phrase.

If you do some research about this, there is lots of speculation on how google decide on what words are displayed, but no matter what you think I believe it’s certainly worth looking at, isn’t it?

In my testing I found the keywords it came back with seemed to be terms heavily searched on.

In the case of web traffic, the search terms I got back were

increase web traffic
free web traffic
buy web traffic
google web traffic
web traffic report
web traffic generator
web traffic monitoring
measure web traffic

They all seem pretty related to my original search.

And you can drill down by clicking on a phrase to get relevant keywords to that keyword. For example I could have clicked increase web traffic and obtained a list of related keywords that relate to that term.

This is getting interesting. Before you pass on this method compared to using your favorite keyword research program, It’s my suggestion consider the following.

1) The information from these searches are directly from Googles Server, so the data has not been corrupted in any way.

Many keyword research tools do not use data from Google at all (Wordtracker) or combine data from multiple sources. Here we have information direct from the source!

2) The information that comes back from Google is of course very up to date, unlike a lot of other keyword research data that can be months out of date.

I am not suggesting that you get rid of all other keyword tools in favor of this technique, but I do recommend you check it out. With all the latest whiz bang all conquering, overly hyped software tools that seemingly gets released everyday, sometimes it pays to take a step back and go back to just using a very simple method like searching in Google!

In my case, I actually use this method in conjunction with other keyword tools, and get the best out of both worlds. My two favorite keyword research tools currently are Nichebot and Market Samurai (google them).

I find the best use of this technique is when searching new niches, or when trying to establish the viability of entering a particular market.

One final thing to note is that unfortunately not all keywords are supported. Sometimes there are no related search terms are provided for a given keyword, but given that it’s free I’m happy to overlook that oversight.

And occasionally I have to mention that the search terms returned seem a little bizarre. But this seems to be in more unusual niches that perhaps Google have not collected enough information for (my speculation).

Get out there and have a look at the related search function in Google. The search terms returned might end up being very useful.

C’mon money…

Or perhaps you have had a website going for a while and have been disappointed in the results of getting free web traffic. Perhaps you are now considering that now is the time to try something else.

Then again you may be an affiliate looking for quick ways to get traffic to an affiliate program that does not involve using PPC (pay per click).

For the vast majority of us, the results can leave a lot to be desired. We put all our initial efforts into getting the website to look perfect, adding the options for people to buy our products, or getting the ads fitting in nicely with our content, or our CPA (Cost Per Action) offers ready to rock and roll, etc.

But no matter how nice the website looks, it’s not going to do you much good without traffic arriving to your website is it? This is a problem many beginning (and intermediate) internet marketers make.

They do all the preparation of the website first, including choosing the products, etc without doing any research.

Big problem!

And figuring out how to get web traffic is something they will get around to later.

How Do I Get A Heap Of Web Traffic?

I’m going to suggest this is the wrong way of doing things.

Instead you should follow the steps below.

Step 1. Research your market and keywords first.

This is the most important thing you need to do first. Spend time looking at your proposed niche, and find out what people are looking for, and then sell it to them. Sounds simple right, but again and again I see people developing or promoting products that they believe are of interest. Let me tell you it’s not what you think people want, it’s all about what your potential visitor will find interesting and useful.

How are you going to find out what people want? By spending the time to research it. Spend time looking in forums, competitor websites, and other websites to see what people are talking about, what their problems are, what they have issues with and then sell THAT to them.

Get it in your mind that you want to really help people. You genuinely should be aiming to help people, and not just try to make a pile of cash from them. By putting the needs of your target audience first, you will find your results will improve dramatically.

Remember the market will tell you what they want to buy. Don’t second guess! Research!

Step 2 Targeted web traffic.

Now is the time to be figuring out how you are going to be getting targeted web traffic to your website.

You should have a firm idea(s) in mind. Here are a few suggestions. Article Marketing, Blog Posts, RSS Syndication, Blog post commenting, web 2.0 promotion, more traditional SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

I will explain each of this in subsequent articles ( and might even get my brother to put his guitar down to help!), but suffice to say if you do not know of many or any of these techniques, now is the time to be researching how to do this.

Keyword research is also vital. You need to do some proper research into the keywords you aim to use with a view again of web traffic. Which keywords are you going to target? How much traffic do these keywords get each day? How much competition do they have?

These are questions you need to answer now before proceeding further.

Step three is about conversion.

In other words how are you going to make money from these visitors? e.g. converting visitors into customers.

Are you selling a product? Do you have ads on your web pages? Are you aiming to get the visitor to sign up to a newsletter and promote to them via email?

You should have clear goals here of how you intend to make money, and also research what your competitors are doing. Before proceeding further.

The reality is that in some niches you will have less than desirable results with a particular form of type of monetization, and research is the key to figuring this out.

Step 4 -  We get to the least important of the 4 factors and that is the product!

You have done your research, figured out how you are going to get web traffic, and have a plan on how to monetize your visitors.

Now you can think about the product! Most underachieving internet marketers start with the product first and wonder why the have no sales, or no visitors! They have not spent the time finding out what their audience wants and how they are going to get them to their website.

I hope this article starts you thinking about how you are going to get targeted web traffic to your website. With a plan and a clear direction you can succeed.

Make sure you take the time to figure out a plan of attack before you go running off to produce a product.  Do the research first!

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